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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 563-582Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/14686996.2016.1226121
Keywords
Photonic crystal; inverseopal; photoelectrochemistry; Li-ion battery; energy storage; energy conversion; catalysis
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- Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) through an SFI Technology Innovation and Development Award [13/TIDA/E2761]
- SFI [14/IA/2581]
- National University of Ireland
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This perspective reviews recent advances in inverse opal structures, how they have been developed, studied and applied as catalysts, catalyst support materials, as electrode materials for batteries, water splitting applications, solar-to-fuel conversion and electrochromics, and finally as photonic photocatalysts and photoelectrocatalysts. Throughout, we detail some of the salient optical characteristics that underpin recent results and form the basis for light-matter interactions that span electrochemical energy conversion systems as well as photocatalytic systems. Strategies for using 2D as well as 3D structures, ordered macroporous materials such as inverse opals are summarized and recent work on plasmonic-photonic coupling in metal nanoparticle-infiltrated wide band gap inverse opals for enhanced photoelectrochemistry are provided.
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